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News 12 Long Island updates studio with more technology
News 12 Long Island, one of Cablevision's 24-hour rolling news networks, debuted an updated set Monday, as well as a new program.
The set swapped a large graphic behind the main anchor desk for a 6×3 monitor array from AV Design Services, which featured an animated map graphic with large text.
James Yates Production Design worked to update and expand the set, with blackwalnut providing fabrication.
The change was timed with the launch of "Nightside," the networks new 7 p.m. newscast.
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Accept, unite and move on to greater goals
Yatindra Bhatnagar
Now that Donald Trump, the newest leader of the Republicans, has won the election and is the president-elect of the United States of America, it's time for the people - more importantly the very vocal, sometimes unruly, supporters of the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton - to accept the verdict, unite and move on to greater goals under the new, and of course, the untested leadership. Give them a chance, others had it.
It is heartening to note that all the big media organizations such as the mighty New York Times in the East and Los Angeles Times in the West, and many in-between, finally admitted that their reading of public mood was wrong. They may or may not accept that their support to the wrong candidate was totally wrong but it's also noteworthy that there is a widespread soul-searching in the media empire. Even the editors of the New York Times have acknowledged it. They, and the people, now know why Trump won, and why Hillary tasted defeat; what was right, and what was wrong all the time. LA Times admitted that "signs were always there" (but we didn't care to read, realize and accept.)
However, there is no real and sincere soul-searching and admission of endorsing the wrong candidate. They keep on harping on their position, one way or the other, criticizing Trump for this and that, past, present and also in the perceived future. They are (like the LA Times) still giving disproportionately large space on their pages to the supporters of Hillary Clinton and for blasting Donald Trump. The other side is rarely seen.
It's also wrong for a big number of Hillary-supporters to come out of even schools, colleges and other places to very vocally and aggressively demonstrate against the winner and still support the loser. To express their disappointment and feelings, to mourn and lament their loss is natural, normal, and legitimate. But there is a limit for everything. The media is adding fuel to fire with highlighting and justifying anti-Trump protest and unruly demonstration with burning of the effigies and photos of the president-elect. This is shameful, disgusting and unacceptable in a democracy, much less in this great country. Stop double standard!
To keep chanting "Trump is not my president' is wrong, futile, undemocratic and ill-advised. Some have expressed their strong opinion in filthy and unacceptable language also on the social media. That is not done. That is not the sign of a civilized society. That is not accepted from any person, group, party or leadership. This will not take the protesters anywhere. Imagine if Trump had lost and his supporters had taken to the streets – as some feared before the results. Would you have Okayed, tolerated or justified that? Never. Why a double standard now?
Why can't some stop being a sore loser? Why can't people who profess and vow for democracy accept that verdict? The existing rules and constitutional provision have given Trump the election victory and that has to be accepted by the leaders of opposition, the mainstream media and the common people. It's pathetic that the retiring Leader of the Minority (Democratic Party) in the Senate, Harry Reid, gave vent to his frustration and has blasted Trump accusing him of all kinds of 'crimes' three days after the election result. It's disgusting but what can you expect from this man! My fear is his comments will add fuel to fire.
The protests and asking the Electoral College to switch their votes to Hillary at the formal and final vote by this "special voters group" is neither proper, fair, uncalled for or justified, logical and acceptable. In a game the losers don't question, reject and protest the outcome and take to the streets to ask the referees to change their decision and overturn the result. To bolster their position, to start and continue with provoking slogans, obstruction of traffic, burning photos, holding people and normal life to ransom on the streets and freeways, and even in front of public offices, is a big disservice to the community and the country.
We know that at some places disgruntled supporters of a losing team adopt unruly and violent tactics but that behavior should not be repeated after the election verdict. You have the next game to win, the next election to sweep. In sports there are a fixed number of games in a season. In a political democracy the games are played more often, and for generations, to give opportunity to one and all.
Now the disgruntled supporters of Hillary Clinton have instigated and organized to collect a large number of signatures and petition the Electoral College to change their pledge and favor the Democratic candidate. They claim to have more than 2 million signatures.
What Hillary-supporters and her campaign could not do in the regular election they want to achieve through the back door. The petition to the Electoral College is on the wrong path and sets a wrong precedent. If the system is flawed, why didn't Democrats move to change it when in power? Clearly it's a tactic to start a different kind of movement and show 'head-or-tail-I-have-to-win' mentality. Nobody should fall for it otherwise it will ignite the other side and there will be a rival petition in favor of Donald Trump. You don't want to have a system of winning elections with petitions by the defeated candidate's supporters.
There is no other way but to accept the result peacefully, constructively, pro-actively, and, in an orderly manner, for at least four years.
In this case President Obama, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have to play their part quickly, carefully and effectively to end these political protests and restore political normalcy. They should exhort and appeal to their supporters to not give vent to their emotions in a wrong manner but instead to accept the results, move on and devote their energies for the greater good of this great country.
The work for those elected has been cut out clearly – the people expect them to deliver. But the responsibility of the people at large, supporters and critics of this party or that, is also very clear – do your duty, meet your obligations and play an active and constructive role in the huge task of nation-building. Keep a watch. A lot has to be done all around to make the nation safe, secure, strong and prosperous. The challenges are many, let's face them together.
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Samantha Heights Joins the Shimmer Game Roster!
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The latest name to join the Shimmer game roster is one of the brightest prospects out of the midwest, Samantha Heights. Samantha was trained in the OI4K wrestling academy by Dave Crist, so obviously she has no problem taking daredevil-like risks when she needs to!
Heights made her Shimmer debut back in June 2016 tagging with Crazy Mary Dobson, but since then has wrestled only in singles matches. Although her win-loss record hasn't been the best, she has boosted her name by going toe-to-toe with some of the best women' wrestlers in the world like Kimber Lee, Nicole Matthews, Allysin Kay and Cheerleader Melissa. It's only a matter of time before she gains the experience she needs to become a major force in the Shimmer ring.
Samantha Heights joins Hudson Envy in this 5th edition of the SHIMMER game. Be watching in the coming weeks for more names in SHIMMER Volume 5! The game will be available in early November and also at the SHIMMER tapings in Chicago on November 11-12.


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Individuals have looked for getting gone bed bugs (also called Cimicidae) in numerous methods, but many of them are inadequate. Some tips what to not do if you should be buying therapy.
Do not Get Rid Of Ravaged Furniture
The very first thing many people want to do would be to throw their furniture out bed bug repellent. In the end, take a seat on a sofa that is plagued or nobody really wants to rest on the bed that is moving with insects. Nevertheless, this is not advisable. It's not common for individuals to pick furniture that is resting on the community control up. If somebody accumulates your previous sofa that is plagued with Cimicidae, the invasion instantly advances for anybody who visits them and also to their home. Should you choose to get rid of furniture, contemplate destroying it to ensure that nobody else may wish to choose up it.
Do not Depend On Pest Control Chemicals
Substances and pest-control options are not effective in removing many of these insects. No recorded chemical remedy is demonstrated to be in removing all Cimicidae effective.
Do not Attempt Cold Them
Cold appears like it may be an excellent choice for bed-bug therapy. Nevertheless, all of this really does is place them. The insects can be killed by a fridge. However the fridge must-be-at an incredibly low temperature for an extended time period. A commercial-grade fridge would be needed by homeowners -- an average one in your home just isn't hot enough.
Do Remove Litter
Litter is loved by Cimicidae. In case your home is saturated in publications, covers, additional documents and much more, you are developing ground for these insects. Additionally, it makes obtaining an adequate bedbug therapy harder.


text: "Next Tuesday Americans will be deciding whether to hand over even more of our government to corporations that have been plundering America—such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Wellpoint insurance, Massey Energy, and Halliburton, the giant oil services company. Not every large corporation is irresponsible, of course, but plunderers that get away with it gain a competitive advantage over the more responsible, and thereby lead a race to the bottom. Case in point: Halliburton executives knew the cement it was using to seal BP's Deepwater Horizon oil well was likely to be unstable but didn't tell BP or act on the information."


text: We know that a lot of guns in Canada come from the U.S.A. I thought I had seen and heard it all until I saw this Car Dealer giving away AK-47's with the purchase of a truck. Buy a truck and get a free gun. I wonder if he would feel the same way had a family member been the victim of gun violence?


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1) We should pay all our public servants, like Senators and Congressman, the same as the medium income in their districts.If they want to earn more, then raise the pay and earning potential in your own backyard. You are supposed to represent us, so get paid like us. Buy your insurance like us, no more getting it free from the government. I am getting more and more disgusted with our politicians and their inability to make common sense decisions. We send you there to work, not argue. Shut the fuck up already.
2) The NSA is spying rampantly not only on its own citizens, but on our overseas allies as well. Facebook and Google use your own personal information to sell advertising. Adobe lost the information to millions of their customers. Hackers break into corporations and government databases seemingly at will. The companies do not really care about safeguarding your information. It's just a means to an end. All they really want your info for is advertising. Safeguarding it is secondary.
3) Fracking is not an individual thing. It's a process. Being against fracking is like being against cooking. What people are against are the products being sent downhole to assist in the process of extracting oil and gas. So it's slightly illogical to pass laws limiting all fracking. If your community, I'm looking at you eastern slope of Colorado, wants to control fracking, then pass the laws to limit the chemicals going downhole. Let the companies frac using water and sand. If you enjoy a heated home and gasoline in your car, then you can't vote to get rid of a process integral to oil and gas. I don't like Brussel Sprouts, but we still cook.
4) Another thought like #1. Ben and Jerrys ice cream owners had a rule where the highest paid executive could only earn X times of what the lowest paid person made at their company. I like this. So say an elected official could only make X percent more than minimum wage. Or an executive at a greedy bank could only make X percent more than their janatorial staff. If they want more money, than give raises all around. Or learn to live on less, like the rest of us.
5) Why does it seem so impossible for the city to get the manhole covers flush with the surface of the street? Either they are 2 inches above or below the street. Whats up with that?
6) When I bought an item to resell in the store, I paid a price, added whatever markup to it, and put it out for sale. Why don't gas stations do that? Why does the price for a gallon of gas fluctuate so often? How many price changes does the gas go thru on just the one delivery of fuel into their underground tanks? I'm sure they just pay a set price for the delivery of that fuel. But their retail price on that same delivery changes 10s, maybe 100s of times, throughout the one time delivery.
7) Got 5 inches of snow here in the Grand Valley overnight. They closed the schools for the day, among other things. Growing up in Gunnison, I dont remember ever having 'snow days'. You went. Period.
8) I am so tired of the 'win at any cost' mentality of pro athletes. Doping, juicing, HGH, cheating, scamming, It's too much. From coaches and athletes all the way up to ownership. I'm sick of it. I can barely watch any pro sport anymore because I am constantly asking myself about the intentions and outcomes. Pisses me off. Pro Basketball especially is painful to watch. It's all about fouling. There is no flow to the game.
9) Another school shooting. The Denver TV station we get (Fox) was talking about rumors of the shooting days before it actually happened. Id like to hear about that now. If there were rumors about this school in particular, let's get the principle and police together to explain why they weren't there for the kids. Also we should be asking where did the kid get the gun? Why wasn't it locked up and the ammo locked up separately? Its time we held parents responsible too.
10) Last one…Its Merry Christmas. Or Happy Hanukkah. Or Happy Kwanzaa. It is not Happy Holidays. We are a nation based and founded by religion. We happily welcome others to participate in their own beliefs. And we happily welcome you to have no belief at all. So to put out a generic bland greeting is chicken shit. Be proud of your religion, or lack of one. Whatever. Just stand up, have a backbone, and say Merry Christmas. People understand. Even if it's not their own religion. This time it really is The Thought That Counts. Merry Christmas everyone!


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"To ascertain the relative worth of each job through an objective
evaluation so that relative remuneration may be fixed for different jobs."
NOTE:- Job evaluation rates the job and not the job-holder. Job Evaluation According to Bureau of Labour Statistics of USA,
"Job evaluation is the evaluation or rating of jobs to determine their position in the job hierarchy. The evaluation may be achieved through the assignment of points or use of some other systematic rating method for essential job requirements such as skill, experience and responsibility. Job evaluation is widely used in the establishment of wage rate structures and in the elimination of wage inequities . It is always applied to jobs rather than the qualities of individuals on the jobs." Dumb ltd. is a textile industry which produces clothes for its consumer market.
The following are its employees and their respective salaries:- Dumb Ltd. Corporation The executive appointed does the evaluation and ranking of various jobs in the
organization is as follows:- Evaluation of jobs Under the new system of remuneration, each employee is paid as per the value of his
job title as follows :- Remuneration of employees
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text: Carticept Medical completes $20M Series B financing round Carticept Medical, Inc., a developer of innovative products for the treating cartilage accidents and osteoarthritis, today announced that it provides completed a $20 million Series B financing round. New investor SonoSite, Inc. Joined existing investors Domain New and Associates Business Associates. Patrick, Chief and President Executive Officer.".Pulmonary function research or pulmonary function checks may be helpful in assessing the type and just how much lung harm has occurred. Bronchiectasis is definitely a form of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , which testing can help confirm this. These assessments can help determine if the lung cells will respond to the usage of bronchodilator treatment with inhaler medications . Repeated as time passes, pulmonary function studies might help document the advantages of progression or treatment of the disease. Less commonly, bronchoscopy is used to look inside the airways with a fiberoptic camera. That is sometimes done to look for tumors or international bodies that may have been noticed on CT.


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It's about a race. Between trains. From London to Aberdeen . You couldn't make it up - and we didn't. The incredible but true story of the death-defying contest, sparked by the opening of the Forth bridge, between trains on the East and West Coast routes to Scotland in the summer of 1895.
Play starts at 6pm (1pm Sat), the pie and pint available from one hour prior


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Psychological Resources was incorporated in Georgia in 1970. Early on the focus was assessments for vocational rehabilitation, but by 1973-1974 Dr. Eber was developing applications for public safety and corrections use. The idea of psychological assessment for hiring in the public safety community was relatively new and just catching on.
By the late 70's, the crisis over racial discrimination that had been brewing in the Atlanta Police Department came to a head. When Judge Moya ordered that some method be found to correct this problem, Psychological Resources' system was examined and judged to be the best resolution. With the least discriminatory impact of the options available, it also passed EEOC guidelines. The Atlanta Police Department began using the system, and in the months that followed, the Fire and Corrections departments came on board.
Still, the move to psychological assessment for hiring in the public safety sector was slow to catch on.
By the mid-80's, the word was out! A good assessment system, over time, significantly helped in building better, more stable departments. By 1986, we could boast a customer list of over 200 departments, nationwide. Four years later that list would be twice as big! Today our customer base is more than 700 and growing strong.
In 1984, Psychological Resources joined with Dr. Steve Sampson to develop a video-based promotion test, later to be called CIRA. By 1985 the validity data had been gathered and CIRA was formally introduced. Just as with psychological assessment, initial acceptance was slow, but the last 8 years have seen a definite increase in interest. Feedback on the results has been fantastic. But we aren't resting on our laurels! It will take some time, but the DVD-based version 2 is on the drawing board.
In the late 70's, just the ability to process and deliver a good report via computer-based scoring was incredible. We used answer "cards" that were fed through "readers" and it took a small mainframe to process the data. Constantly looking for ways to improve the system, we were watching PCs from the minute they hit the street. Early ones weren't powerful enough, but that didn't last long. By 1985 we were in full-blown migration mode and by 1986 had scrapped the mainframe and were running the system on PC. Lots of programming was done, but what our customers saw were better looking reports – printed by laser instead of daisy wheel or dot matrix. While this was occurring, the Windows revolution had begun. The office had migrated from mainframe to Novell networked PCs, but it didn't stop there. The migration flowed on to Windows and NT networking. Eventually the scoring/reporting system was migrated to Windows-based software. This was "behind the scenes," but the result was the next big bonus to our customers – we moved from answer "cards" to answer "sheets"; plain paper sheets that could easily be faxed! We established a toll-free fax line in the early 90's and began offering fax-in/fax-out capability on a regular basis. What had been at best a 3-day turnaround (overnight to us, score/report, overnight back) now could be done in the same day at a cheaper price (no overnight fees for either end). And reporting improved. We could now add longevity odds and present them in pie-chart format for easy viewing.
But we aren't stopping yet. All through the years, along with processing the cases that come in, Dr. Eber is always doing research to improve the scoring and reporting. The more data we obtain, the better it gets! He has a project underway now and no doubt will continue others. We always err on the side of security, but we have ideas for uses of the internet that should improve the "customer side" of our services yet again. Stay tuned for more…..


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5 layer dip
Can't decide what dip to bring to the party? We've got you covered with this multi layer Mexican dish! It's simple to prepare, and can easily feed a hungry crowd.
To make this dip you will need:
1 deep rectangular baking dish
A hand mixer or food processor
1 ripe avocado
1 tbsp. of lime juice
1 jar of Neal Brothers All-natural medium salsa (or any of your favourite from Neal Brothers!)
1 package of Pacific Food's refried black beans
2 cups of shredded old cheddar and Monterey jack cheese
1 package of light cream cheese
3/4 cup of light sour cream or Greek Yogurt
1 tbsp. of chili powder
2 tsp. each of cumin, paprika and garlic powder
1/4 tsp. of cayenne pepper
Begin by prepping the cream cheese layer. In a large bowl, combine 1 package of light cream cheese, 3/4 cup of light sour cream or (Greek Yogurt if using) and your spices. Mix well with a hand mixer or food processor until completely blended and creamy.
In a separate small bowl, mash avocado and 1 tbsp. of lime juice with a fork. Set aside.
Layer 1: The first layer starts with creamy, re-fried organic black beans from Pacific. With all natural spices and herbs like cilantro, these are the perfect flavour base for this dish!
Layer 2: spread the entire bowl of cream cheese mixture onto the re-fried beans with a spatula or spoon
Layer 3: Spread out avocado and lime juice mixture over the cream cheese layer
Layer 4: Spread the entire jar of Neal Brothers all-natural medium salsa over the avocado layer
Layer 5: Top off the dish with a layer of cheese, a sprinkling of green onion and chili powder
The best way to enjoy this dip is with your favourite Neal Brothers tortilla chips. We paired ours with Organic blue corn and multigrain-delicious!


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Here you will find a portfolio of some of our previous work. This is not all of it, but a few selected projects and commissions we have done. Unfortunately the sensitive nature of most of our work prohibits us from showing most of it due to NDA's and patent applications by our clients.
3d Printed bottle for label design.
We were commissioned to do a 3d model and 3d print of a new bottle design for a company called Fanakalo based in Stellenbosch.
They specialize in graphic design and branding. Specifically this project was for a 3d printed model of the bottle for which they are busy designing a label and they needed the bottle as an object to be able to test wrap and fit their design label on it. Since the bottle was only going to be used as a template for the real one later, it was decided to do a lower resolution print but maintain structural strength.
You can see more of Fanakalo's work on their website here : www.fanakalo.co.za
Baxmod RC Ratel parts.
We were asked by Chris Baxter from Baxmod to assist with the 3d printing of his RC Ratel gearbox housing. He had a tight deadline so we managed to squeeze the job in over a weekend and have a 48 hour turn around by the end of the weekend for him.
Below is a copy of the write up that Chris put on his Facebook Page
Carabiner Retainer System
We were approached by a client to help solve the problem of theft of their carabiners on their construction site. We were given one set of Carabiner and cable lug to work with. We developed a retainer slide that prevents the carabiner from being slid out of the lug, yet still had more then enough room to fully move and twist to a large degree. The 3d printed prototype was tested on the actual samples and works excellent.


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48 Fielmann
Position: #48
Brand: Fielmann
Brand value: 166 Mio. EUR
Brand value change compared to last year: +7%
Ranking change compared to last year: -1
Fielmann is the market-leading optician in Germany – with more than 23 million customers, it sells every second pair of glasses that are sold in Germany in one of its 578 stores. The principle behind the corporate philosophy is "The customer is you", which shows the customer focus of this strong family-owned business. Fielmann invests in its employees, with its own training facility and apprentices who consistently outperform their peers at industry competitions. The core of Fielmann's extensive communication focuses on offering top quality in combination with best service and prices. The clever tagline, "Brille? Fielmann.", is very familiar among German consumers, supporting the brand's high profile. This venerable optical chain has become a people's brand with a middle-of-the-road approach that appeals to a large audience.


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On this site you will find my Nick Carter fan fictions. I had a website that I built myself. I got rid of it because it was taking too much time from my writing. So now I can focus on my writing.
The first story that's going to be featured is WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE. It's a work in progress right now. But I hope you enjoy it.
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From the one body that was completely exposed, the men in the rubbish-strewn pit had obviously been executed. His face was skeletal from decomposition, but the ropes around his feet still seemed as fresh as when they were tied several weeks ago.
His arms, too, were bound behind his back. In an unpleasant additional humiliation, his bare blackened buttocks faced the sky, his trousers forced down to his knees.
The other corpses were still half buried, apart from the pelvis and femurs and tibias of one that had been dragged away and picked clean by animals.
There were at least four in all, and they had not died an honourable death. "They were killed by Assad regime soldiers," our guides told us. "Probably soldiers trying to defect."
There was no reason to doubt their belief in this assertion, because many Syrian men have certainly suffered this fate in the past year, but there was plenty to doubt this particular story, of which the guides were not certain.
The bodies were not in military clothing for a start. Yet if they were civilians from this rebel-held area near Homs, it was surprising that no one had come to take them away and give them a martyr's funeral. They had been there for some time.
The reaction of Free Syrian Army soldiers nearby to the presence of journalists was unusually angry. They demanded that our photographs be deleted, and our guides were told to take us back to the town of Qusayr nearby. They had another argument there.
The insurrection against the Assad regime is already a civil war, and already vicious. It is impossible to say for sure who the four men in the pit were, or who had lined them up and shot them.
They looked like other victims of this dictatorship – or of Col Muammar Gaddafi's in Libya beforehand – but there is also little sign of mercy on either side.
On Saturday night rebels near here ambushed an army convoy and knocked out a tank, with unknown casualties. On Thursday, a van was shredded and a barracks overwhelmed, with at least 18 deaths in the two attacks.
The rebels give little apparent thought to their enemies, even though they were most likely comrades until recently, since many of the Free Syrian Army men are defectors.
There have been stories of the rebels, who are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, killing Alawites, the minority to which the Assad family and most of the highest ranks of the army belong.
There is no doubt though that the crimes, if any are proved, of the rebels are outweighed by the almost incomprehensibly violent response, often nakedly sectarian, of the regime forces.
Three sons of a Qusayr elder, Abu Kasem, were helping out on their father's farm when the army made its first attack on the town last September, suddenly opening fire from the outskirts in response to nothing more than a series of demonstrations.
The first clue as to what happened to Yathreb, Ashraf and Gharidan came when one of their sisters rang Ashraf's phone a short time later.
The phone was opened, but no one spoke. Instead, she heard voices, one saying "this one is wounded", and another saying "kill him".
Then came three shots, and the phone went dead.
Abu Kasem said that when he was told that Yathreb and Ashraf's bodies had been found in the military hospital, he said "praise be to Allah" that they had been martyred for a cause. Even when he went to retrieve them, and the officer on duty asked him if he had "come to fetch his dogs", he said he had no feelings of revenge.
But he broke down when Gharidan was released from prison four months later. From a prison van Gharidan had been a witness to Ashraf's last moments. Yathreb, he said, was already dead by this time.
"He saw that Ashraf had a problem with his leg, and he saw the soldiers beating him with the butts of their rifles," Abu Kasem said. "He asked what he could do for him, but there was nothing he could do.
"Ashraf said, 'Say Salaam to my parents.' He said, 'Send my good wishes to our brothers and our father and our mother and our daughters.' And that is what happened."
The body had four bullet wounds: one in the leg, two in the chest, and one in the head.
With that, Abu Kasem cried. All the men present as he told this story insisted that there would be no revenge after the revolution, that the rebels did not want to bear arms and wanted only to go back to their jobs.
"I want nothing more than a peaceful revolution," Abu Kasem said. "Freedom will be peaceful for everybody, because in all religions freedom is love."
But, a former army captain himself, he acknowledged resentment in the Sunni parts of the armed forces at Alawite dominance. At this point freedom, peace and love still seem a long way away.


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Download and gunzip in one step
I was feeling the need to take a look at Nexenta and decided that I wasn't terribly interested in waiting for a download, then waiting for a gunzip. Why not do them both at the same time?
$ wget -O /dev/stdout http://www.gnusolaris.org/gsmirror/genunix.org/elatte_installcd_alpha2_i386.iso.gz | gunzip > elatte_installcd_alpha2_i386.iso => `/dev/stdout' --20:21:47-- http://www.gnusolaris.org/gsmirror/genunix.org/elatte_installcd_alpha2_i386.iso.gz Resolving www.gnusolaris.org... 220.127.116.11 Connecting to www.gnusolaris.org|18.104.22.168|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/gnusolaris/elatte_installcd_alpha2_i386.iso.gz [following] --20:21:48-- http://www.genunix.org/distributions/gnusolaris/elatte_installcd_alpha2_i386.iso.gz Resolving www.genunix.org... 184.108.40.206 Connecting to www.genunix.org|220.127.116.11|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 567,433,011 (541M) [text/plain] 13% [====> ] 77,025,880 359.25K/s ETA 22:27Just 22 minutes to go. I guess at this rate I could have piped it through cdrecord with "speed=2".


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I know it's possible to connect a mouse and keyboard to a PS4 with some gimmick, but that's not really what I'm after. I want analogue movement control with the thumb stick too, which rules out the keyboard. Does anyone know if it's possible to play with a mouse & analogue movement control of some kind?
Clarification, I've been a PC gamer all my life. I've tried controllers before, even joysticks, but I just can't use them right. Is there some way to get analogue movement + a mouse?


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William H. Bell Athletic Center
The William H. Bell Athletic Center is a 185,215 square foot facility that was dedicated in 1992 and stands as the center of Trinity's athletic complex. It houses two performance gymnasiums, the Hixon Natatorium, several racquetball and squash courts, an aerobic fitness center, weight room, and a dance studio. In addition, the facility boasts spacious locker rooms and a state-of-the-art athletic training room. All Trinity students and faculty members are allowed access to these facilities.
- Animals are not allowed in the building with the exception of those assisting individuals with disabilities
- Smoking or smokeless tobacco is not allowed in the Bell Center
- Food is NOT permitted in any activity areas
- Athletic shoes must be worn in all activity areas. Bicycles, cleats, and roller blades are not permitted in the building
- Specific rules are posted in activity areas
- The Athletic Department is not responsible for lost or stolen items
- Proper Trinity Identification be readily available at all times. Bell Center staff and members of the Trinity University Police Department reserve the right to ask all individuals without proper identification to leave the premises
Bell Center Summer Hours of Operation (beginning May 14:
Monday-Friday – 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday – 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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Senai Hi-Tech Park will help transform Malaysia, says PM Najib0
Iskandar Malaysia-based technology park aims to lead Malaysia into an advanced future as it signs another new investment and production deal.
Johor's Senai Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) would be a "key driver" for high value technology industries and Malaysia's aim to transform itself into an advanced, innovative nation, says Prime Minister Najib Razak.
PM Najib spoke yesterday at a signing ceremony for SHTP and Solexel (M) Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of California-based solar cell manufacturer Solexel Inc. A new memorandum of understanding between the two will see an aggregate investment of RM2.8 billion (US$944 million) over the next five years, and create 2,300 jobs.
Solexel will manufacture crystalline silicone solar cells at a new 100-acre facility in SHTP's Industrial Zone Phase 1, and is capable of producing one gigawatt of cells per year. The company will also conduct R&D operations and help create a local supply chain for chemicals used in solar photovoltaic (PV) cell and semiconductor manufacturing.
Senai Hi-Tech Park will be 1,000 acres total at completion, and is Malaysia's second dedicated high technology zone after Kulim Hi-Tech Park in the country's northwest. Kulim's success at attracting international investment was the impetus for creating the SHTP project last year and the project's developers are negotiating major deals with foreign investors.
Both parks aim to spur the local high-value economy and create employment for Malaysians in more advanced industries. Calling itself a 'third-generation technology park', SHTP is located next to the redeveloped Senai International Airport in Johor state's Iskandar Malaysia special economic region, across the water from Singapore.
New NanoMalaysia center for Senai Hi-Tech Park0
The Senai Hi-Tech Park, located in Johor's Iskandar Malaysia economic zone, has scored another important project with the announcement of a RM200 million ($65.7 million) nanotechnology development center, the first of its kind in Malaysia.
The new complex, named NanoMalaysia, will be developed at Senai under a private-public partnership and should be completed within 12 months. NanoMalaysia Bhd is a commercial vehicle set up by the National Nanotechnology Directorate (NND), a unit of Malaysia's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI).
Minister Dr. Maximus Ongkili announced the new project at the NanoMalaysia Summit and Expo 2011, saying it would be "a one-stop center for nano science and technology activities and provide a missing link between technology and market."
NanoMalaysia is designed not only to provide a workplace for nanotechnology researchers, but is part of a plan to form other new companies through technology entrepreneurship incubators and assist downstream industries. It's hoped the center will generate from RM100-150 million ($33-39 million) in business within two years, and together with five other nanotechnology research facilities in the country, produce commercially viable applications for three main product groups: aerogel, carbon nanotube and nanocatalyst.
source & article: The Star Business
Senai Hi-Tech Park on track to be Malaysia's next science & technology hub1
Drive north from Singapore across the Johor Causeway, into Malaysia's second largest city Johor Bahru, and keep going. You're now in Senai-Skudai, the heart of Iskandar Malaysia. Iskandar is the special economic region marked for rapid development as an Asian commercial hub and, like Guangdong did for Hong Kong and China, it wants to leverage its prime location and local skills base to fire the Malaysian economy over the coming decades. One development hoping to play a significant part in that progress is Senai Hi-Tech Park (SHTP).
Senai Hi-Tech Park, according to its developers, is "an integrated Science and Technology Park offering an ideal location, superb infrastructure with a service rich-environment", matching Malaysia's technological skills with innovative companies and research institutions from around the world. Part of the Senai Airport City development, SHTP will eventually form part of a vital technology and logistics hub connected almost instantly to major markets around the world.
At the moment it's full more of promise and potential than activity, with Stage One of a three-stage project still under construction. But there's an undeniable hum in the air and the Park has already signed on some major international investors: EQ Solar will build a US$500 million facility to manufacture monocrystalline and polycrystalline solar modules. MOX-Linde Gases will build an industrial gas manufacturing and separation plant, and South Korea's STX Energy has launched a feasibility study into a solar cell facility. (more…)


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As time goes, people are actively exploring new options to do things. Thanks to technology, every aspect of life is getting better by the day. Real estate industry has already curved a different style of building homes in attempts to improve living standards and reduce the costs. However, they are also maintaining the old building habits that are preferred by people. That is why their designers are working around the clock to come up with innovative ways of doing this. They use various technologies that produce better houses and also save time and cost. Let us have a look at some of them.
Prefabricated Homes
The prefab homes are becoming common, especially for houses that are built away from the cities. The basic idea is to prepare the house in a factory and then have it assembled on site with ease. The conventional bricks and mortar are now getting faced out since they are expensive and not environmentally friendly.
Engineers and constructors from CAL CLASSIC HAUS bring various ideas on board to come up with a complete habitable house. Common materials used include concrete, wooden boards, metal and other renewable materials.
Condominiums Apartments
For those who want to live in the cities, they can take the option of living in a condo. These are tall houses with many stories where people buy or rent an apartment. The people living here share common amenities like a fitting center, restaurants, common laundry areas and swimming pool among many others. The good thing about the condos is that they are cheaper than many other housing plans since people share the land, walls and the amenities.
Farm House
Those who are lucky to have a large farm can decide to live in a farmhouse. Most farmhouses are one-story and stand isolated on a large farm. They can be made of any material depending on availability. Wood is common in places where it is found in plenty. However brick and mortar is also an option if the materials are available in that area. However, the inside is usually partitioned with soft wooden boards to make the structured light and durable. Some of them will usually have a basement which is used as a store.
Cottage Homes
Just like farmhouses, cottages are also found in the countryside. They have a great rustic look and most of them considered are historic homes. The old-fashioned cottages are mainly made of burnt bricks, have wooden floors, and the roof is thatched with straws. The new cottages are replacing the thatched roof with tiles or slates to give them a modern feel.
Wood Cabins
These are holiday homes that are found in the forests. The houses are small but enough to hold a family when they go out for a vacation. Most people also use them as a weekend getaway when they want to rest. Logs and wood are the main materials that make these homes. They will usually have a fireplace and no electricity. To power them, people use a gas generator or solar panels if the UV rays can penetrate through the trees.
These are some of the common houses people can go for, and they indeed make living better and simpler.


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19 years.
That's how many years I've spent in the education system. As of today, that represents 65.9% of my life, but who's counting? Throughout all that time, it never ceases to amaze me how little I've learned. Okay, let me rephrase that. I learned a lot, but very little of it is relevant and applicable to my life. Yes, math, science, history and English classes are all very important, but why does the public school system ignore teaching basic life skills? A career, at its core, is simply a way to earn a paycheck. If school is preparation for a career, then school is nothing more than an attempt to optimize your earning potential. (Yes, to some people their career is more than a paycheck and has real meaning to them, but if they were not born of wealth and were not paid to do their job, they probably wouldn't be spending 40+ hours a week doing it.)
So why does school teach us next to nothing on how to manage our finances and invest in our future? What is the point of earning a paycheck only to die impoverished? A person with lower earning potential and a great investment strategy will outperform a person with higher earning potential and no investment strategy. Why are basic investing and accounting concepts not taught to students so they have the knowledge to maintain their own fiscally sound balance sheet? After all, our household should be run like a business. It is hard to make the mortgage and utility payments on time if your balance sheet shows more debt than equity and cash flow is struggling.
When I graduated college in 2009, I struggled to formulate some kind of plan for myself. The only investment knowledge I was armed with was from an elective course I took my senior year of high school called "Stock Market." To this day, that one class was the most important class of my life, including every course I took in college. That course should be mandatory in every public high school across America. Stock Market I-IV. Whoever runs on that platform gets my vote. Our children's futures are at stake.
According to Deutsche Bank Chief International Economist Torsten Slok, 47% of US households save NOTHING out of their current income.
Sit back and take that in for a moment. That is astounding. Statistically, if you are reading this, there is nearly a 1-in-2 chance you are part of this statistic.
The Pension Phase-Out
It used to be that when you got a job in America, you stuck with that company for a long time. It was not uncommon 50+ years ago that a person would graduate high school, get a job and work for that company for the next 30+ years until retirement. It was a simpler time, and not only were Employees more loyal to their Employers, but Employers were more loyal to their Employees. It was the norm for Employers to offer their Employees Pensions, which are also known as "defined benefit plans." Pensions are structured where the Employer has complete control over the Employee's investments. Contributions would be made by a regular basis from either the Employer and/or the Employee to an investment portfolio controlled by the Employer. For the contribution, the Employer promises the Employee a defined, regular (typically monthly) benefit upon retirement. This regular benefit is calculated using a predetermined formula that is based on the Employee's age, years of service, earnings history, etc. There are risks, of course. If the Employer goes belly-up, the Employee's benefits could be greatly reduced. But the goal of a pension plan is to provide the Employee with some sort of guaranteed income stream for the rest of their life. These programs are still popular in government jobs, and are often based on an Employee's final salary (which is why it's so common to see folks like police officers pick up lots of overtime their final year on the job to pump up their pension benefits as much as possible).
While this method of retirement savings is probably not going to allow you to retire rich if this is your only income stream, it at least guarantees some type of passive income for your future. Ultimately, it was successful because individuals tend to not be such good investors, and this approach takes the individual out of the equation completely.
Employers have been phasing out defined benefit pension plans for decades. While still popular in the public sector, private sector employers have overwhelmingly scrapped pension plans and replaced them with 401(k) programs. This is not necessarily a bad thing. If you are a reasonably knowledgeable investor, 401(k) plans can provide much, much higher rates of return when compounded over decades than a pension plan ever could. A pension plan may have you retiring comfortably, but a 401(k) plan could potentially have to retiring rich. However, a 401(k) plan also has the potential to have you retiring dirt poor. 401(k)'s are elective contribution plans for the Employee, and although some Employers provide an automatic percentage of salary deposited into your 401(k) plan, if you have an Employer that provides match contributions, if you contribute nothing you get nothing. Even if you are getting a percentage of salary, it won't be nearly enough to comfortably retire on. If 47% of Americans save none of their income, the 401(k) experiment for this country will end in complete disaster for the typical American worker.
If You Won't Live Below Your Means, Reduce Your Means By Which You Live
We have all heard the abysmal statistics of the number of Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck. What are the most recent statistics, now? CNN said back in June of 2013 that 76% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck. Two years later, I doubt the statistics have changed all that much. From this data, I surmise one thing:
Money burns holes in American's pockets.
We live in an "I want it now" culture. Once you get that money in your hand, you're going to want to spend it. If you are earning $800/week after taxes, you're probably going to structure your life to accommodate $800/week's worth of spending instead of, say, structuring your life to live at $650/week while investing the remaining $150/week as you should be doing. A fantastic strategy to get around that is to simply have the funds auto-deducted from your check into an investment account so they never show up on your paycheck. That way, you can only spend what you have available while the rest is tucked away into an investment account, slowly and silently compounding into a nest egg for yourself as you grow older.
This is where the 401(k) shines.
1.) You can have your Employer deduct a flat amount or percentage of your paycheck each week into a private investment account without you ever realizing so you cannot spend that money. It's much easier to save money you never had than to take money out of your pocket and tuck it away.
2.) If your employer offers matching, it could be an automatic 50-100% return on your investment. FREE MONEY! If your employer offers 401(k) matching and you are not at least contributing the maximum amount of your paycheck to receive the matching, you are missing out on the greatest investment opportunity you probably will ever have available to you.
3.) 401(k) contributions (up to a certain amount allowed by the Government) are tax deductible. That money is deducted from your income and you do not have to pay taxes on it for that fiscal year. That means if you make $50,000/year and you deposit $5,000 of your own money into your 401(k), you only pay income taxes on $45,000 that year.
Between employee matching and the immediate tax benefit, you could be seeing as high as a 120-130% instantaneous return on investment before your money even touches the market. If you start in your 20's or early 30's simply investing in basic, low-cost index funds, over a 30 year period at typical market returns, that investment could be massive. And it is so easy. You don't have to lift a finger. It is all done for you. All you have to do is show up and earn a paycheck. I have nothing more than a median income salary, but I deduct $100 from my paycheck and into my 401(k) plan every single week.
Of course, 401(k) plans are not the only way to auto-deduct money from your income. Many strategies exist. Some of the most popular are IRA's, and one of my favorites, Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIP's), one of the greatest potential wealth building tools you've probably never heard of.All information found herein, including any ideas, opinions, views, predictions, commentaries, forecasts, suggestions or stock picks, expressed or implied, are for informational, entertainment or educational purposes only and should not be construed as personal investment advice. I am not a licensed investment adviser.


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Its been a while since I've posted a recipe on my food blog so I thought I'd ease myself back in with an easy one......but in hindsight, perhaps a little too easy! But who cares, as Edamame beans are one of my new favourite starters when going out to eat! As a recipe though, it does feel a bit of a cheat as we are only talking three ingredients and virtually no cooking (as I'm not sure a 30 second blast in the microwave really counts) but the look and taste definitely makes up for it
Edamame Beans (in theirs pods)
Salt flakes
Chilli Flakes
Heat the beans in the microwave for 30 seconds - add salt & chilli flakes
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Everybody Hurts….Sometime.
It is not always easy–Recovery. In fact it is never easy. You have to want it bad. you have to be motivated, committed, and prepared to hurt. It is not for the weak of heart or those who are less than serious about the task which lies ahead.
Too often addicts do not have that level of commitment when entering rehab. Too often addicts will try to take shortcuts. Even worse is when an addict enters rehab without a true intention of putting in the work that is needed to get better. If you are not willing to hurt then you are not willing to become clean and stay clean.
I think where addicts fall short the majority of time is not during the actual rehab program, but instead it is upon re-entry to the "real" world. As hard as the beginning of a rehab program can be, it is nothing compared to the work that one has to do when you are back to all your stressors and triggers. So many people who have done beautifully during treatment watch all that work go up in flames when they relapse due to the pressures of everyday life.
There is nothing easy about rehab and sobriety. It hurts. There isno way around it. Don't try to minimize it. Own it. Work it. Win it.


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Workshop Program
This International Workshop will provide a combination of introductory, industry relevant, R&D, mathematical, and philosophical introduction to Data Mining, Soft Computing, Rough and Fuzzy Sets. The presenters have interests in practical applications, research and development, as well as academic aspects. This document describes the information on the talks as well as the invited presenters.
Data Mining
Rajendra Akerkar is Senior Scientist at West Norway Research Institute, Norway. He is also Chairman of the Technomathematics Research Foundation, India. His research and teaching assignments have taken him around the world to Germany, Japan, Spain, Holland, Norway, Austria, Canada, Vietnam, and Armenia. He received the BOYSCAST (Young Scientist) award from Government of India, and was recipient of the prestigious DAAD (Germany) fellowship, DAAD Visiting Professorship and UNESCO-TWAS Associateship. He serves as the editor-in-chief of International Journal of Computer Science & Applications and Journal of Hybrid Computing Research, and is on the editorial board of numerous other computer science journals and serves as the program committee member for various international conferences on data mining, semantic systems and cognitive technologies. He has authored more than 80 articles in various international journals and conferences, and authored/co-authored 9 books. His area of interest broadly includes intelligent systems, semi structured data, data mining, and semantic Web.
Abstract: Data mining has been a subject of considerable interest both in academia and industry. Data mining refers to a set of techniques that have been designed to efficiently find interesting pieces of information or knowledge in large amounts of data. Association rules, for instance, are a class of patterns that tell which products tend to be purchased together. Covering machine learning, statistics, and operations research, this technology of knowledge discovery now represents a vital tool to assist in intelligent decision making in the highly complex business environment. This talk gives a brief introduction to data mining process and explores how this interdisciplinary field brings together techniques from databases, statistics, machine learning, and information retrieval. The talk reviews the main data mining methods currently used, including clustering, classification, and association rule techniques. Some applications and trends will also be discussed.
Introduction to Rough and Fuzzy sets
Pawan Lingras is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computing Science at Saint Mary�s University, Halifax, Canada. His undergraduate education from IIT, Bombay was followed by graduate studies at the University of Regina, Canada. He has authored more than 140 research papers in various international journals and conferences. He has also co‐authored a textbook and co‐edited a collection of research papers. His areas of interests include artificial intelligence, information retrieval, data mining, web intelligence, and intelligent transportation systems. He has served as the review committee chair, program committee member, and reviewer for various international conferences on artificial intelligence and data mining.
Abstract: The data mining techniques are based on conventional crisp logic, statistics, and probabilistic theories. Sometimes, the axiomatic limitations of the traditional mathematics can make it awkward to apply these techniques in practical applications. Fuzzy sets introduced in 1965 made it possible to allow partial membership of an object to a set. This flexibility led to development of data mining techniques that make it possible to conduct supervised and unsupervised learning from datasets, as well as identify fuzzy patterns and predict future trends. Rough set theory was introduced in 1982, and provides a less descriptive and complementary alternative to fuzzy set theory. Rough sets allow for multi-level memberships of objects to sets. Researchers have developed rough alternatives to almost all the data mining techniques. This talk will provide a general introduction to both rough and fuzzy set theory that will be helpful towards understanding of the subsequent talks.
Pawan Lingras will also provide general introduction to all the talks and presenters at the beginning of the workshop.
Rough sets application to data warehousing: a commercial success story (Live Online)
Dominik Slezak received his PhD in Computer Science in 2002 from Warsaw University, Poland. In 2005, he co‐founded Infobright Inc., where he is currently working as chief scientist. He is also an adjunct professor at McMaster University, York University, and University of Regina, as well as in the Polish‐Japanese Institute of Information Technology. Dominik serves as an associate editor and reviewer for a number of international scientific journals, and chair of several international scientific conferences. He has published over 50 pier‐reviewed papers for books, journals, and conference proceedings. He has delivered a number of invited talks in Canada, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, India, Japan, Korea, Poland, Russia, Singapore, UK, and US. His research interests are related mainly to rough sets, data warehousing, data mining, KDD, bioinformatics, as well as medical and multimedia data.
Abstract: The theory of rough sets provides a powerful model for representation of patterns and dependencies, applicable both in databases and data mining. On the one hand, although there are numerous rough set applications to data mining and knowledge discovery, the usage of rough sets inside the database engines is still quite an uncharted territory. On the other hand, however, this situation is not so exceptional given that even the most well-known paradigms of machine learning, soft computing, artificial intelligence, and approximate reasoning are still waiting for more recognition in the database research.
Rough set-based algorithms and similar techniques can be applied to improve database performance in several ways. We focus on the idea of using available information to calculate rough approximations of data needed to resolve queries and to assist the database engine in accessing relevant data. We partition data onto rough rows, each consisting of 64K of original rows. We automatically label rough rows with compact information about their values on data columns, often involving multi-column and multi-table relationships. One may say that we create new information systems where objects correspond to rough rows and attributes - to various flavours of rough information.
In this talk, we show how the above ideas guided us toward implementing the fully functional data warehouse product, with interfaces provided via integration with MySQL and internals based on the newest database trends. Thanks to compact, flexible rough information, we became especially competitive in the field of analytical data warehouses, where users want to query terabytes of data in a complex, dynamically changing way. Recently, we announced at www.infobright.org the open source edition of our data warehouse, ready for free usage and further extensions. In the talk, we illustrate the best scenarios of applying our software to various aspects of data processing. We also discuss the most promising directions for further improvement of our technology, with a special attention to the ideas based on the theory of rough sets and corresponding techniques.
Applications of rough and fuzzy hybridizations to bioinformatics and biomedicine
Sushmita Mitra is a Professor at the Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Dr. Mitra received the National Talent Search Scholarship (1978-1983) from NCERT, India, the IEEE TNN Outstanding Paper Award in 1994 for her pioneering work in neuro-fuzzy computing, and the CIMPA-INRIA-UNESCO Fellowship in 1996. She is the author of three books, more than 75 research publications in referred international journals, and associated with editing of books and journals. She is listed as one of the top 100 Women Scientists, in Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India, published by the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2008. She served in the capacity of Program Chair, Tutorial Chair, Plenary Speaker, and as member of programme committees of many international conferences. Her current research interests include data mining, pattern recognition, soft computing, image processing, and Bioinformatics.
Abstract: In this talk we cover some of the hybridizations of rough sets with neural networks, fuzzy sets and genetic algorithms, in the broader framework of soft computing. Applications are presented for knowledge encoding, rule extraction, dimensionality reduction, biclustering, and segmentation. Results demonstrate the suitability of the methodologies for feature selection with improved recognition, in diverse domains such as microarray gene expressions for bioinformatics and face recognition. Segmentation of CT scan images of the infracted regions of the brain also exhibit superior results.
Rough sets applications to biological and agricultural applications
Sonajharia Minz is a Professor Computer & Systems Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Dr. Minz has been working in topics related to Rough set theory since 2002 having guided 2 PhD�s and 8 M.Tech projects. Her research focuses on issues relating granular computing for Data mining along with application of Rough set theory with Machine learning techniques. Dr. Minz has widely published in the application of rough sets in bioinformatics.
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Perspectives of granular computing: past and future research directions (Live Online)
Yiyu Yao is a Professor of computer science in the Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. His research interests include information retrieval, rough sets, interval sets, granular computing, Web intelligence, data mining and fuzzy sets. He has published over 200 journal and conference papers. He is an area editor of International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, a member of the editorial boards of the Web Intelligence and Agent Systems journal, Transactions on Rough Sets, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Journal of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunication, The International Journal of Cognitive Informatics & Natural Intelligence (IJCiNi), International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI). He has served and is serving as a program co chair of several international conferences. He is a member of ACM and IEEE.
Abstract: Granular computing has emerged as a new multidisciplinary study and has received much attention in recent years. A conceptual framework is presented by extracting shared commonalities from many fields. The framework stresses multiple views and multiple levels of understanding in each view. It is argued that granular computing is more about a philosophical way of thinking and a practical methodology of problem solving. By effectively using levels of granularity, granular computing provides a systematic, natural way to analyze, understand, represent, and solve real world problems. With granular computing, one aims at structured thinking at the philosophical level, and structured problem solving at the practical level.
Rough Clustering and Its Dynamic Extension
Georg Peters is a Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences and Mathematics at University of Applied Sciences - Muenchen, Munich, Germany. He received diploma degrees (equivalent to master degrees) in electrical engineering, industrial engineering and in business administration from RWTH Aachen University. He also obtained a PhD in the field of intelligent data analysis from the same university. He has published more than 40 papers in the fields of information systems and soft computing. Currently, his interests include applications of soft computing concepts, in particular rough sets.
Abstract: Since its introduction by Lingras rough clustering has gained increasing attention. As in original rough set theory in rough clustering the concept of two approximations are utilized to define a cluster. In the recent years it has been successfully applied to several real life applications. Recently a dynamic version of rough clustering was suggested which adapts to changing data structures. The presentation gives an overview of rough clustering approaches and discusses areas of applications. Then dynamic rough clustering is introduced.
An Evaluation of Result Merging Models in Metasearch
Dr. Vijay Raghavan is the Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Center for Advanced Computer Studies and a co-director of the Laboratory for Internet Computing. His research interests are in data mining, information retrieval, machine learning and Internet computing. He has published over 170 peer-reviewed research papers- many of which appear in top-level journals and proceedings- that cumulatively accord him an h-index* of 21, based on citations. He has served as major advisor for 20 doctoral students and has garnered $8 million in external funding. Dr. Raghavan brings substantial technical expertise, interdisciplinary collaboration experience, and management skills to his projects. His service work at the university includes coordinating the Louis Stokes-Alliance for Minority Participation (LS-AMP) program. From 1997 to 2003, he worked closely with the USGS National Wetlands Research Center and with the Department of Energy's Office of Science and Technical Information on a digital library with data mining capabilities incorporated. He chaired the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining in 2005 and received the ICDM 2005 Outstanding Service Award. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering directorate. Dr. Raghavan was honored as the Grand Marshal for the Fall-2008 Graduate School Commencement Exercises at UL Lafayette.
Search engines queried by a metasearch engine return results in the form of a ranked list of documents. The key issue is to combine these lists to achieve the best performance. In our work, we apply fuzzy aggregation operators to result merging. Our work is an extension of s [1] fuzzy Ordered Weighted Average (OWA) operator based result merging model proposed by Diaz [2]. We propose three extensions to the OWA model for metasearch. These are the Importance Guided OWA (IGOWA), the algebraic t-norm OWA, and the algebraic t-norm IGOWA models. While the first two are based on s extension of the OWA operator, the third is a combination of the first two.
The first model (IGOWA) allows weights to be applied to search engine result lists. The second model (t-norm OWA) allows for alternative t-norm functions to be used in aggregation. The third t-norm IGOWA model allows for both. In our work, for the second and third models we use the algebraic (product) t-norm. We compare and contrast our models and also compare them with existing models such as the OWA model for metasearch proposed by Diaz [2] and the Borda-Fuse model proposed by Aslam and Montague [3].
Two of our models, the algebraic t-norm IGOWA model and the IGOWA model, require search engine weights. Thus we develop a new scheme for obtaining search engine weights. We apply our scheme to the above models and observe that using our weighting scheme results in improved result merging.
[1] Yager, R. R. On ordered weighted averaging aggregation operators in multi-criteria decision making, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 10, 2 ( July 1983), 243-260.
[2] Diaz, E. D., De, A., and Raghavan, V. V. A comprehensive OWA-based framework for result merging in metasearch. In Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular-Soft Computing (05) (Regina, Canada, August 31 - September 3, 2005). Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, DE, 193-201.
[3] Aslam, J., and Montague, M. Models for metasearch, In Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (01) (New Orleans, LA, USA, September 1-6, 2001). ACM Press, New York, NY, 2001, 276-284. SIGIR RSFDGrC YagerYager
Brief presentations from interested participants in Rough sets, Fuzzy sets, and Soft computing
Participants are encouraged to submit an extended abstract and a copy of their ten minute presentation on email@example.com for review by June 30, 2009.
The session will be led by Dr. Ashok Deshpande, who is an adjunct professor of Bioinformatics at University of Pune and College of Engineering Pune (COEP). Since early 80�s he is involved in fuzzy logic and its application to variety of systems. He is co-chair of Berkley Initiatives in Soft Computing in Bioinformatics. His group is trying to develop fuzzy logic based infusion pump for anaesthesia control at the Bio Medical Engineering at COEP.
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